Maputo (3)

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Maputo was born out of a quirk of 16th-century navigation.
Anyone looking at a map or a photograph of the bay will understand its importance as a port in a storm, a place of rest and resupply.


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But also as a detour from the main route around the Cape of Good Hope and northwards through the Indian Ocean on the spice-trade route.


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Maputo was originally called Baia da Lagoa, the bay of the lagoons, because early Portuguese navigators thought the rivers that flowed into the bay came from a large inland lagoon.


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The British corrupted this to Delagoa Bay, a name which so displeased the Portuguese that a law was passed in the 1920s forbidding its use.


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